Tenured Professor
Curriculum and Instruction
Associate Dean / Academic Affairs

Managing Partner: AGEL Inc.

Educational Leadership and Intergenerational Transmission –Based Education and Empowerment (ITBE).
The Alliance for Global Education
Primary Research Focus

Intergenerational Transmission of background, training and experience; beliefs, values and attitudes; paradigms; behavior; and consequences

Dr. Johnson is the author of numerous concept papers, refereed and non-refereed journal articles, monographs and books, plans and proposals, and position papers . His most recent major initiative was as co-author of Cultural and Educational Excellence Revisited: Knowing, Doing, Being, and Becoming as though Saving the African American Child Matters. A sample of his writings completed over the last ten years follows:

Johnson, Jr., James A., (2010). Teachers as Sowers: Are Teaching Conditions Connected to Outcomes of Instruction? Paper to be presented at  the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators.  Fort Worth, Texas.

______ Peltier-Glaze, Bernnell, Bailey-Perry, M. Danita. And Hamilton-Reed, Lakeisha Y. (2009). Entre Nous.  A Critical Appraisal of Science Outcomes of Schooling for African American Children and Youth Enrolled in the  Houston Independent School District.  Paper prepared for The Earl Carl Institute for Legal & Social Policy, Inc. and Thurgood Marshall School of Law. Texas Southern University.  Houston, Texas

______ Peltier-Glaze, Bernnell, Bailey-Perry, M. Danita. And Hamilton-Reed, Lakeisha Y. (2008). Teachers as Canaries: Lacking Control over Classroom Conditions but Continuing to Teach Anyway.  Paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association of African American Studies. Baton Rouge, Louisiana

______Jackson, LaTasha Rush; Hamilton-Reed, Lakeisha Y,, and Sharkey, Deirdre J.  (2008). What’s Mary Rambo Got To Do With It?: Impacts of Philetic Culture and Climate on Outcomes of Schooling for African American Learners Enrolled In Niceville ISD.  Paper read at the annual meeting of the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators.  Austin, Texas.

______Owens, E. and Bailey-Perry, D. (2008). Effecting Planned Variation in the Educational Experiences of Students in Urban Schools. Journal of Urban Education.

______ (2007). Working Hard or Hardly Working: Do Learners of African Descent Matter? Do the Sentiments of their Parents Count? The Earl Carl Institute for Legal and Social Policy, Inc. Texas Southern University. Houston, Texas.

______ (2007). Research-Based Best Practices Associated with Excellent Outcomes of Instruction for Learners of African Descent Achieved by Participating Texas Task Force III Demonstration Schools/Communities. A Report Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators. Austin, Texas.

______Gardner, Crystal, Hamilton, Lakeisha, and Jones, Delores. (2007). Doing Our Own Equity and Excellence Figuring: Lying With Statistics – The Niceville ISD Fifth Grade Science Program Outcomes. National Association of African American Studies. Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

______ (2006). Saving Future African American Scholars: Admissions, Retentions, Graduation: From where will future African American Scholars come? Paper presented at the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators 21st annual Conference. Houston, Texas.

______ Melanie Johnson (2006). ‘Causedeyrollsdereyes: Having the backs of Learners of African Descent Left Behind. Paper prepared for the 2006 Annual Meeting of the National Association of African American Studies. Baton rouge, Louisiana.

______Melanie J. Johnson (2006). Having the Backs of Learners of African Descent Left Behind: Assessing the Past and Assuring the Future of Educational and Cultural Excellence. Texas Southern University 2006 Research Week. Houston, Texas.

______Broussard, Shanna L., Cummings, J. R., Levi, Krista A., and Bailey-Perry, Danita M. (2006). Cultural and Educational Excellence Revisited: Knowing, Doing, Being, and Becoming as though saving the African American Child Matters. Inkwater Press. Portland Oregon.

______Owens, E., Cummings, J., (2005). Factors that Influence when Students have Sex: A Survival Model. Association for the Advancement of Educational Research. Stuart Florida.

______ Melanie J. Johnson (2005). Mitigating Against Incommensurable Teaching and Learning: Laying the Predicate for Advocacy-Driven Gap Reduction to Zero in Outcomes of Schooling for Learners of African versus European Descent. Paper presented at the 2005 annual meeting of the National Association of African America Scholars. Houston, Texas.

______(2005). A Proposal to the Texas State Legislature to Create and Fully Fund the Texas Alliance of Black School Educator’s Center for Educational Research and Development. Proposal was developed for the TABSE Executive Board and President’s Council.

______Broussard, Shanna L., Levi, Krista (2005). The Educational Branding Hypothesis: Branding African American Learners at an Early Age. Texas Southern University. College of Education. Department of Counseling and Department of Curriculum and Instruction.

______Owens, Emiel (2005). Using survival Techniques to Model When Students Drop Out of High School. Southwest Educational Research Association. New Orleans, Louisiana.

______Cummings, Jay (2004). Educational Leadership: Doctoral Programs, Challenges and Opportunities for Service and Contribution. Texas Alliance of Black School Educators. San Antonio, Texas.

______ Owens, E., Bailey-Perry, D (2004). Examining Misclassification of High School Dropouts Using At-Risk Measures versus a School Alienating Index. Association for the Advancement of Educational Research. Stuart, Florida.

______Owens, E., Bailey-Perry, D (2004). Modeling High School Students’ alcohol, Drug and Tobacco Use Over Time. Association for the Advancement of Educational Research. Stuart, Florida.
______ Johnson, Melanie (2003).Mitigating Against Incommensurable Teaching and Learning: Laying the Predicate for Advocacy-Driven Gap Reduction to Zero Outcomes of Schooling for Learners of African versus European Descent: A Three-Act Case. Paper prepared for the Annual Meeting of the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators. Beaumont, Texas.

______Cummings, Jay and Bailey-Perry, Danita (2003). Cultural Performances of Americans of African Descent: Using Indicators of Social Progress as Measures of Qualities of Life. Paper presented at the 2003 Annual Conference of the National Association of African American Studies. Houston, Texas.

______ Owens, E. (2003). A Proposal to Create an on-line System to Monitor and Evaluate Students and Faculty in the College of Education in the amount of $5000.

______ Cummings, Jay (2002).“Necessity plus Possibility: School Performance with Children and Youth of African Descent and Resulting Performance Gap Identification. Paper read at the First Annual Academic Forum and Planning Retreat of the Center for the Development and Study of Effective Pedagogy for African American Learners. Radisson —Astrodome Hotel. Houston, Texas.

______Cummings, Jay (2002). School Performance with Children and Youth of African Descent and Resulting Performance Gap identification. Paper presented at the First Annual Academic Forum and Planning Retreat. The Center for the Development and Study of Effective Pedagogy for African American Learners. Houston, Texas.

______Cummings, Jay (2002). Creating Conditions and Engaging in Practices Designed to Contribute to Cultural Excellence: Our Students Can – Our Educators Must. Presented at the 17th Annual Conference of the Texas Alliance of Black School Educators. Fort Worth, Texas.
______ (2002). A Proposal to the ECG foundation to fund a Visiting Human Services Practitioners Series in the amount of $10,000. Funded

______ Broussard, Shanna (2002). A proposal to Understand Teacher Descriptions of High and Lo2w performing Students in the amount of $13,700.00.

______(2001). A Proposal for a Master for Education Degree. Plan developed for the Vice-President, Professional and Graduate Studies. S. Edwards University, Austin Texas.

______(2000). Education of Children and Youth of African Descent in the State of Texas. A Legislative Agenda/Position Paper. Texas Alliance of Black School Educators Executive Board and President’s Council.